Happiness is a good spirit, or a good thing.
What then are you doing here, O imagination?
Go away, I entreat you by the gods, as you did come, for I want you not.
But you have come according to your old fashion. I am not angry with you: only go away.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.17
IMAGE: Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare (1781)
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